Friday 29th of March 2024

blind faith .....

blind faith .....

from Crikey ….

Warning to Australia: Cameron's 'Big Society' failed in UK

poetic justice .....

poetic justice ....

 

Iron-ore magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is fighting attempts to exploit the mineral wealth under his own cattle station in the Pilbara.

Mr Forrest, 51, founder and executive chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, is suing to block attempts to search for uranium on his Minderoo Station and last month failed in an attempt to halt sand mining on the property.

in search of true believers ....

in search of true believers ....

Julia Gillard will have no paucity of distractions during her sleepout at the marvellously named Rooty Hill, a suburb in Sydney's western sprawl which was once Labor's heartland but is currently feared as The Badlands.

castaways .....

castaways .....

ship of fools ....

ship of fools ....

It is not about who can or should lead the Labor Government. It’s about the rotten anti-worker policies Labor serves up to we workers. That’s why Abbott and has ship of fools is leading 56% to 44% in the two party preferred vote in the latest Nielsen poll.

death wish .....

daeth wish ....

from Crikey .....

Essential: how determined are voters to throw Labor out? Very.

mind games ....

mind games ....

There are some words and phrases that almost inevitably crop up in politician-speak across the ideological spectrum. No matter how fond one might be of one’s own relatives, for instance, by the conclusion of an election campaign we’re all heartily sick of families, be they ‘modern’, ‘working’, or otherwise. Some words, though, are a little more abstract, such as community and the mainstream.

on being screwed .....

on being screwed ....

We are taught that the laws of the market are as certain as the law of gravity, that capitalism is the natural order of things and that the system generally works. But while a tiny few are doing very well out of capitalism, the vast majority face a day-to-day struggle for survival.

a nation betrayed .....

a nation betrayed .....

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Treasurer Wayne Swan were bent on a progressive thinking educated Australia which would be built from a fairer disbursement of sovereign wealth, according to credible parliamentary sources. The Stringer was told that Mr Rudd and Mr Swan were both adamant that other business sectors of Australia could not be hit for tax hikes till the resources sector was finally brought into line.

the value of being awstraylan .....

the value of being awstraylan .....

Awstrayla’s mighty midget Metternich, Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, has walked away from a written undertaking to raise the case of Julian Assange in talks with the Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, next week.

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